Back up what is already on the partition, split the partition up,
restore the windows stuff back on the partition you set up for it.
Some people swear by Partition Magic, it allegedly can resize your
partitions non-destructively. You may want to look into it. I know a
limited version of it came with either McMillan's or the official
Mandrake distribution.
Caveat: Make sure the version of Partition Magic you use is as current
as you can get. And do the back up before you do any re-partition just
for insurance. I used an earlier version on a 13 gig hard drive and it
choked, something about DOS or the BIOS not being able to handle a drive
over 8 gig or something. To say the least, everything on the drive was
trashed. The backup saved the day.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brett
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 4:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Linux and windows98
>
>
> Hello:
> I just bought a Compaq PC with a 13 Gb hard drive and
> pre-installed
> win98. Currently, the hard drive is set up with a 2 Gb
> partition and an
> 11 Gb partition (both win98). I would like to take part of the 11Gb
> partition (say 7 Gb) and set it aside for Mandrake Linux 6.0.
> How would
> I go about doing this without destroying what already exists
> on the hard
> drive?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -TB
>
